100 years ago in Bucks

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Jul 26, 2013 at 12:01 AM

John L. Richter is no longer employed in the office at the car barn on South Lincoln Avenue. All his clerical work of the trolley company is now done in the Trenton office.

— News item from Newtown as reported in the Newtown Enterprise of July 1913. Bucks County once had a large street railway trolley system linking Bristol, Yardley, Washington Crossing, Wycombe, Doylestown and other towns. Suburban trolley transit began to succumb with the spread of automobile ownership,

necessitating downsizing to stay in business.

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